Reichsbank

American  

[rahyks-bangk, rahykhs-bahngk] / ˈraɪksˌbæŋk, ˈraɪxsˌbɑŋk /

noun

1. the former German national bank.

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Etymology

Origin of Reichsbank

From German; see origin at Reich, 's ¹, bank ²

Example Sentences

UBS at the time said it found one account for a former Reichsbank president and another opened by an SS officer’s widow decades after the war.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

When American forces captured the mining town of Merkers on April 4, 1945, locals tipped them off that the Reichsbank used the old salt tunnels to shelter sensitive assets from aerial attack.

From Slate • Apr. 25, 2018

At the end of the Second World War, the U.S. military investigated a legend that much of the reserve of the Reichsbank, in Berlin, had been hidden in a salt mine in Merkers, Germany.

From The New Yorker • May 9, 2016

In a column by Leonard Lyon of the New York Post datelined Frankfurt, my father recounted how one Reichsbank official snickered, saying: “You’ll never do it. The walls are too thick.”

From Washington Post

A. Yes; it is immediately convertible into cash at the Reichsbank.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur